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Thoughts and prayers go out to all those experts who have to explain the background of today's clownstrike oopsie to the befuddled press.
It takes some non-trivial mental contortion to explain the whole "people installing a backdoor on their computers for some company to execute privileged code, written in an unsafe language, in order to make their computers more secure" thing.
Are you going to inflate the villains so big and round that they cannot carry out any more of their dastardly deeds? If yes, then I think it's time to change my alignment to evil and give mischief a try! 
Great arts! Very expressive and sharp!
Can we make it a counter-movement for Zoomers and Millennials to wear showy bandages in support of classmates who have been injured or killed in school shootings?
That would totally drive the MAGA crowd nuts!
authorities have determined the cause of today's massive cloudstrike outage that has crippled the internet, but have declined to press charges because he's too cute
🎨: @BlurTheFur
My work PC is currently caught in a cycle of blue-screen-reboot death.
I checked webmail from my Surface, and they have instructions to call the help desk if the problem doesn't resolve itself.
If only they hadn't disabled all of our company phones in favour of Teams...
I'd use my company-issued cell phone to call the Help desk -- if they'd issued me one...
Okay so you know, bunch of shitposting and all that, but a serious interlude:
Someone pushed the button to start this rollout. They are probably having a _really_ bad time right now.
If someone at Crowdstrike knows who that is, please go and check on them, give them a hug, tell them it's not their fault, that it's going to be okay. No matter what the company line is on blameless culture whatever, the lizard brain is in charge right now and needs reassurance.
One piece of software appears to have brought airports and TV stations to a standstillAndrew Griffin (The Independent)
Remember how on Battlestar Galactica none of the systems were wired into each other and everything was done via sheets of hexagonal paper?
Not a bad idea really
Of course the current global cyber outage has a #Wikipedia article already!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2024_global_cyber_outages
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Notice from the Admiralty
We are aware that some battlemech pilots engage in so-called "dance-offs" in their spare time. We have allowed this as harmless fun.
However, after seeing the viral clip of Jaeger-845D and Jaeger-922H do the tango we must make a public statement:
Woof!
If you're mad about Google killing short links all over the Internet, and are saying things like "let's scrape it all before it goes down", I suggest checking out https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior. Some chaotic good people are well ahead of you in terms of planning, and have a VM image you can run to lend some compute and bandwidth to the effort. It's like SETI of old, but for praxis against internet vandals like Google.
(context: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/)
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.developers.googleblog.com
"Six million people at risk from extreme heat in England, campaign group warns"
Friends of the Earth says older people and young children are most at risk in heat-vulnerable neighbourhoodsGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
FloofTube is accepting new signups for furries/scalies of the Internet to publish floofy content!
There was a minor glitch with the signups that was preventing new users. That has now been fixed.
Join today!
https://flooftube.net/signup
"I want to remind the court once more that my reasons for taking action were not beliefs or opinions. Earth’s life-support systems are breaking down due to human activities, whether we believe it or not." - Cressida Gethin, court statement
She was sentenced to four years in jail.
I think NAT is to blame for a lot of the internet being the way it is. Without NAT (which I have been able to avoid, myself) one can tinker with running a small web site at home, for fun. If nothing else it helps understand it all. Even something totally silly like my weather station here at https://yfenni.cymru
(Yes, missing a few days, it needed new batteries 
So IPv6 may save us yet.
KTqtpi, Aurorius, CD, and Mira at FWA24
🦊: nogonip
🦊🦌🐺🐉: iamAurorius
🐉: CanadianDerg
🐕: Mirasheppy
📌: FurryWeekend
#Furry #Furries #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Photography #Anthro #FurryArt #FurryArtist #FWA #FWA24
Long COVID rates have declined, especially among the vaccinated, study finds
In large study, rates of long COVID fell from 10% to 3.5% for the vaccinated.
Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F
...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.developers.googleblog.com
NVIDIA transitions fully towards open-source GPU Linux kernel modules
It's a bit of a Linux news day today - it happens - but this one is good news we can all be happy about. After earning a bad reputation for mishandling its Linux graphics drivers for years, almost decades, NVIDIA has been turning the ship around these past two years, and today they made a major annou
